in a mostly volunteer department, the task wouldn’t be huge but it did present sev- eral challenges that had to be overcome in the planning stages to ensure a suc- cessful implementation in the field. Those challenges included the required elec- tronic submission of patient care data to the Office of EMS and Trauma (OEMST) (custom software had to be written by Zoll Data to handle this), printing the patient care reports at the hospital, establishing a wireless network to enable the EMT to submit the completed report to the Res- cueNet®


server from either fire station, and having the right computers in the field. We immediately knew that a stan- dard laptop couldn’t take the abuse that an EMT could put it through in an envi- ronment that could include rain, cold weather, hot weather, and even being dropped – that’s where the Panasonic Toughbook®


After reviewing the specifications of the Panasonic Toughbook®


was the product that we needed and would


series came into the picture. we felt that this


EMSPROMAG.com 37


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19  |  Page 20  |  Page 21  |  Page 22  |  Page 23  |  Page 24  |  Page 25  |  Page 26  |  Page 27  |  Page 28  |  Page 29  |  Page 30  |  Page 31  |  Page 32  |  Page 33  |  Page 34  |  Page 35  |  Page 36  |  Page 37  |  Page 38  |  Page 39  |  Page 40  |  Page 41  |  Page 42  |  Page 43  |  Page 44  |  Page 45  |  Page 46  |  Page 47  |  Page 48  |  Page 49  |  Page 50  |  Page 51  |  Page 52